Gemini 3.0 Pro vs o4-mini
Google Gemini 3.0 Pro | OpenAI o4-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | OpenAI | |
| Release date | Nov 18 2025 | Apr 16 2025 |
| Access | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Benchmarks | ||
Nonsense detection BullshitBench v2Given a confidently-worded but nonsensical prompt, does the AI spot that it makes no sense and push back — instead of playing along and inventing an answer? The score is how often it clearly called out the nonsense. Higher is better. | — | 8% |
Coding SWE-Bench VerifiedReal coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | 76.2% | — |
Next.js coding Next.js EvalsVercel's open eval of how well AI coding agents build and migrate real Next.js apps — measured as the share of tasks the agent completes successfully. Higher is better. | 67% | — |
Abstract reasoning ARC-AGI-2Puzzle-style tests of abstract reasoning and pattern-finding — the kind of thing people find easy but AIs often struggle with. Higher is better. | 31.1% | — |
Science GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | 91.9% | — |
Multimodal MMMUTests the AI on understanding images and text together across many college subjects. Higher is better. | 81% | — |
Community preference Arena Elo (Text)Real people chat with two anonymous AIs side by side and vote for the answer they prefer. Votes become a chess-style Elo rating on arena.ai — it measures which AI people actually like, not test scores. Higher is better. | 1486 | — |
Community preference (code) Arena Elo (Code)Like the text arena, but people vote on which AI writes better code. The votes become a chess-style Elo rating on arena.ai. Higher is better. | 1439 | — |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | o4-mini shipped 216 days before Gemini 3.0 Pro | |
Which is better: Gemini 3.0 Pro or o4-mini?
Gemini 3.0 Pro and o4-mini don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks, so there's no direct head-to-head comparison. o4-mini shipped 216 days before Gemini 3.0 Pro, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Published specifications for these two models are limited — see each model page for the latest details.
Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — Gemini 3.0 Pro and o4-mini don't publish scores on any of the same benchmarks.
Frequently asked questions
Gemini 3.0 Pro was released by Google on Nov 18 2025.
o4-mini was released by OpenAI on Apr 16 2025.
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